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The Federal Government has given reasons for the delay in the commencement of Ogoni clean-up exercise, saying it was to build a solid foundation for the project.

It will be recalled that in June, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, launched the “Clean-Up of Ogoniland” at Bodo, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State. Ogoni-land But since flag-off the project experienced hiccups.

However, Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, said every arrangement concerning the project has now been perfected, including the issue of funding.

Kanye West rented an entire island for his Fashion Week and transported his family, Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner, New York’s fashion elite, along with a host of his A-list friends to Roosevelt Island on Wednesday.

At the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, guests were left trapped in buses while the models were left in the sun for over an hour and a half past the 3pm scheduled start time.

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Abuakar Malami (SAN), has explained that the suit filed by a lawyer, Godson Nnaka, for a share in assets recovered from former military ruler, General Sani Abacha, valued at $458million is stalling the reparation of the money to Nigeria.

In a statement he issued yesterday in Abuja, the minister said in 2013, the United States Department of Justice, (USDOJ) as part of its Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, commenced a forfeiture proceeding […]

Militants under the aegis of Ultimate Warriors of the Niger Delta, UWND, on Wednesday threatened the Federal Government saying their patience was running out over failure of the government to open negotiation with them, two weeks after declaring a ceasefire.

A statement by the group’s Media Director, Sibiri Taiowoh, tittled, ‘If you make the peaceful change that we seek impossible, we will make violent change possible,’ also pledged affiliation with the Niger Delta Avengers.